Screen 5 -- Familiar Complaints?

Literacy professionals and the organizations that represent them need to commit to understanding the complex relationship between literacy and technology and to intervening in the national project to expand technological literacy [. . .] we need to acknowledge the economic and political goals that policymakers have identified as the end product of technology expansion: the effort to maintain and extend American privilege, influence, and power within an increasingly competitive global marketplace, ostensibly for the benefit of all citizens (Technology and Literacy in the Twenty-First Century: The Importance of Paying Attention, Cynthia Selfe 160-61).

I do remember that whenever I saw an educational film in high school, it meant fun for everyone. The teacher got time off, we were entertained, and nobody had to learn anything. Computers and the Internet do the same--they make it easy for everyone, but damn little teaching happens (Silicon Snake Oil, Clifford Stoll 118).